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Oct 19 2023
News
Biden declares Putin, Hamas threats to democracy in prime-time speech
President Biden delivered a prime-time speech Thursday to rally Americans to support the wars in Israel and Ukraine as he prepared to ask Congress for $100 billion in aid for the beleaguered nations. In his remarks, Mr. Biden argued that the two wars in other parts of the world threaten to undermine democratic stability and put U.S. national security at risk. The president compared Russian
Washington Times
Sep 28 2023
News
President Biden announces new McCain Library, condemns 'threats' to democracy
TEMPE — In his third visit to Arizona since being elected in 2020, President Joe Biden spent nearly 35 minutes at the Tempe Center for the Arts delivering a speech with dual purposes. President Biden first announced the creation of The McCain National Library, honoring his friendship and political relationship with Arizona’s late Republican Senator. However, the majority of the president’s
ABC 15 Arizona
Jun 07 2023
Perspectives Blog
Threats to Democracy: Censorship and Speech Suppression
Freedom of speech is a founding principle of the U.S. constitution, read how both sides have threatened that principle.
How the Left Suppresses Speech How the Left Suppresses Speech Censoring “hate speech” on social media Sensitivity readers; editing classics to fit modern inclusivity standards Compelling the use of certain pronouns How Both Sides Suppress Clare Ashcraft
Sep 28 2023
News
Biden issues warning over Trump’s threats to democracy as they head toward possible rematch
President Joe Biden issued blunt new warnings about ongoing threats to US democracy in a major address Thursday, sharpening the central argument in his potential rematch with Donald Trump, who he’s accused of trying to “destroy” bedrock American institutions.
“There’s something dangerous happened in America now. There’s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our
CNN (Online News)
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Threats to Democracy
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Jan 25 2022
Analysis
American democracy is under threat. But what is that threat, exactly?
Leading Democrats, many academics, liberal commentators, and left-leaning activists agree: American democracy is in grave peril. It’s besieged on all sides, the threats culminating so far in Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election from Joe Biden. More tumult likely lies ahead.
But there’s a surprising amount of murkiness about what, exactly, this peril entails —
Vox
Sep 01 2022
Opinion
Joe Biden is the real threat to democracy
President Joe Biden is scheduled to give a speech tonight in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where he will call his political opponents a threat to democracy and urge everyone to vote for Democrats instead.
If Biden wants to see a real threat to democracy, he need only look in the mirror. That's because it is the unlawful executive actions by recent presidents, including his
Washington Examiner
Nov 30 2023
Opinion
The Looming Threat of Israel’s Nuclear Option
Israel’s robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7. Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory and segregate Palestinians ever since. The realization that its
The Nation
Feb 27 2023
News
Mexican protesters see electoral overhaul as a threat to democracy
Juan Manuel Martinez remembers the days when he would vote in Mexico’s elections with no confidence that they were being run fairly.
For decades, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, remained in power by buying votes or stuffing ballot boxes. Election after election, the same story repeated itself.
“No election was clean, democracy didn’t exist, the government
Los Angeles Times
Nov 02 2022
Analysis
Threats to Democracy: Voter Suppression and Voter Fraud
Voting is a major issue on the right and the left. Both sides want free and fair elections, but they have different ideas of what the problem is with our current election model, with one side more likely to be worried about voter fraud and the other, voter suppression.
Politicians and partisan media often try to motivate their base to subscribe, donate, engage and turn out to vote by
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